Events Quote by Stendhal

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Misfortunes make us wise.

— Mary Norton

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

— Michel de Montaigne

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

— Honore de Balzac

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

— Oscar Wilde

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

— Arianna Huffington

I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your…

— Clarence Thomas

Everything happens for a reason. The daily tragedies and misfortunes are all meaningful events, leading toward an ideal conclusion. With that in mind, there…

— Melchor Lim

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the…

— Thomas Mann

Sometimes terrible things just happen to the wrong people.

— Remco Evenepoel

Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.

— Boyd K. Packer

Sometimes our worst mistakes in life, are caused by our worst understandings.

— My (Me